(14-12-2012 08:54 AM)I and I Wrote: According to you the U.S. is capitalist.... Care to provide any info to prove your point?

And what planet do you live on in which capitalist nations never invade or kill or bomb other nations?

How did all those military bases get to be in all those countries? Did they just pop out of someones ass one day?

Capitalism is not political, it's anti-political by definition. Capitalism is simply trading voluntarily for profit.

And how exactly is capitalism "voluntary" when many capitalist nations have to prop up dictators to maintain access to wealth of particular countries? Something so "voluntary" seems to require a lot of military spending.

When the U.S. overthrew democratically elected Salvador Allende in order to have a more corporate friendly dictator, how in the fuck was capitalism in that region "voluntary"?

And have you backed up your statement regarding the idiotic notion that the U.S. is a socialist nation?

(20-12-2012 03:30 PM)Refuting_Ignorance_Every_Day Wrote: Due to the fact that governments in capitalist countries have such little power over their economies, I'd label capitalism as an economic system.

This is true on paper, however the people that make up what is called the government are former and soon to be again members of the capitalist class and while they are serving in the government use the government to structure laws and implement policies domestic and foreign to benefit the capitalist class. That is like saying Lebron James isn't a basketball player because he doesn't play basketball 24/7, you guys are denying the facts and using semantics.